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Download PDF A focus on emissions and climate change won’t just help the planet, it could actually add to your productivity. CPM explores how fertiliser fares in the carbon calculations. Achieving high yields should be seen as an environmental good, rather than indicative of environmental harm. By Tom Allen-Stevens Agriculture gets a bum rap when it comes to climate change and as far as crop production is concerned, fertiliser use is often singled out as the bad boy. But is the burden of responsibility being unfairly laden onto growers’ nitrogen practice? For Anke Kwast, vice president of Yara’s climate-neutral roadmap, it goes far wider than the farm. “Fighting climate change is crucial for all of us. We’re seeing increasingly extreme weather conditions, and there are many steps we must take to combat this. But one important step we must all make as consumers is a positive commitment towards Net Zero, as this will be a strong drive for transformation,” she says. “For Yara climate change is a real concern. We have an aim to be climate neutral by 2050 in our own production and we also actively contribute towards the transformation of the whole food chain towards climate neutrality.” Agriculture…
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